"You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad."

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Source : David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

David Markson

#Life Quotes #Mad Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“XML is a giant step in no direction at all.”
“We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.”
“I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.”
“Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.”
“Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.”

Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge
“I prefer old age to the alternative.”
“Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.”
“I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'”

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